StartPlaying.Games YC Application

Winter 2020Active

StartPlaying.Games went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2020
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

What StartPlaying.Games does

✨ Hello! ✨ - StartPlaying.Games is the largest marketplace for finding game masters to host digital tabletop games like D&D. Today, more than 40 million people play D&D around the world and sales have grown by double-digit percentages for the last five consecutive years. But still finding people to host and play these games with is challenging. Most solutions involve digging through discord servers, reddit, and specialty forums. We built StartPlaying.Games to solve this problem.

StartPlaying.Games's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

StartPlaying.Games, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

StartPlaying.Games

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Building communities through play

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built StartPlaying.Games to be the largest marketplace where players can find game masters to host digital tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. Our product makes it easy for the 40 million people who play these games to connect and schedule sessions without digging through discord or forums.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco and remotely across the US. After YC, we plan to base the company in San Francisco to stay close to the tech ecosystem and investors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco offers unparalleled access to engineering talent, community, and investors. Since we are already mostly remote, being based here after YC allows us to build key relationships and hire fast.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real StartPlaying.Games YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from StartPlaying.Games's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like StartPlaying.Games would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.